Mark Tucker

Mark Tucker was appointed non-executive Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on 1 October 2017.

Mr Tucker is also non-executive Chairman of the Discovery Group of South Africa.

Mark’s public appointments include chairing the TheCityUK until May 2022; membership of the UK Investment Council, chairing the UK Multinational Chairmen’s Group (which brings together the largest UK-based multinational firms) and Supporting Chair of Chapter Zero. Mark also belongs to the Trade Finance Advisory Group of the International Chamber of Commerce, and to the UK Department of Trade’s Financial Services Trade Advisory Group and is a Co-Chair of the Indonesian B20 Finance and Infrastructure Taskforce. In addition, Mark was appointed a member of The Asia Society Board of Trustees in October 2021. Most recently Mark was a member of the Prime Minister’s Build Back Better Business Council.

He has over 35 years’ experience in the financial services industry in Asia, the US the UK, and Africa including over 30 years based in Hong Kong. Mr Tucker was most recently Group Chief Executive and President of AIA Group Limited, having joined in July 2010. Before AIA he was Group Chief Executive of Prudential plc.

Mark has served on the Court of The Bank of England, and on the Board of the Goldman Sachs Group. He is an Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and sits on the Advisory Board of the British Museum.

Mark gained a BA from Leeds University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England and Wales in 1985.

He is married with two children. He is passionate about football, including, for a short time, playing professionally.